Encore presentation.

This week we explore the 13th and final lesson of the 13-week series on “The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man.” The 13th lesson is titled, “Resume.” It was given on Tuesday, December 13, 1932, at 2:30 p.m. This is Charles Fillmore’s summation of the course. The affirmation for this lesson is, “We are unified in Christ and the overcoming love of the Holy Spirit is manifesting in us and through us.” Some key ideas he shared include: “… as you develop the Christ Mind in you and you begin to realize these natural abilities, you find yourself just tuning in … with this Infinite Mind. … How should you know about Truth; By inner thinking. By getting still; quickening in your soul, mind. … Christ is the IDEA; and the Holy Spirit is that Idea WORKING all through the mind of the people in thought.”
 

This week we explore lesson 11 in the series titled, “The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man.” The 11th lesson is titled, “The Birth of a New Race of Men and Women Is Now in Progress; They Are to be the Future Rulers of the Earth.” It was given on Tuesday, November 29, 1932. This talk dwelled on the concept that as we take on the “Mind of Christ,” we are transformed into part of a new race of men and women.

Charles Fillmore shared, “We find in ourselves these fundamental—faculties—the Twelve Faculties—and each faculty with the capacity of involving and expressing all the other twelve. … So, in the regeneration of man … we shall evolve out of the material man the Twelve-Fold Man and that Twelve-Fold Man will rule through the understanding of the powers of his mind in handling the forces of the so-called material world and be another kind of man, a type man.” The affirmation given to the students is: The Word of Christ dwells richly in me and I am unified with all persona of like mind.
 

Today we delved into the sixth lesson of the series of Charles Fillmore classes titled, "The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man." Lesson Six is called "Identity of the Fourth Dimension of Science, and 'The Kingdom of the Heavens' of Jesus." In this lesson, Fillmore shares, "He [Jesus Christ] taught this Kingdom was here all the time waiting the recognition of Man. He taught in other words, what Science teaches, that we are using in every possible way, this Inner Spiritual Realm." Fillmore instructs, "Man needs to know how to work in the ether with the dominion and power given to him in the beginning, … ."
 

This week we reviewed the fifth lesson in the Charles Fillmore class series titled, "The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man." It is titled, "How Mind and Body Manufacture Violet Healing Rays," and was given on Tuesday, October 18, 1932. This lesson describes a lot of things that are no longer believed to be true. Their historic value is obvious since we witness how Charles Fillmore attempted to connect the "science of his day" to metaphysical principles. Fillmore makes some interesting points along the way: "… the subject of all our lessons here is Healing." He also states, "Now there is but one primal substance and life, intelligence, and power in the Universe and that is the Creative Light; God is back of the Light."
 

This week we completed reviewing the third class in the Fillmore Class series titled, "The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man." It is titled "The Finer Forces of Mind and Body Identified as the Garden of Eden: Elemental Substance and Life." Then we launched into the fourth lesson, "Was the First Manifestation of the Human Race in the Ether or on the Earth?" A key idea from the third lesson is this: "beholding in our minds good in everything, everything is, really, at its source, good." This means that no matter if the appearance is good, bad, or ugly, it is the originating IDEA that is good because it is of God. It is humankind that determines how the IDEA is used. In part of the fourth lesson we reviewed, a key idea is that the "IDEA of Man" (the Christ Idea) is perfect and that we have to prove our own perfection. Fillmore says, "… we must live in the consciousness of the Perfect Man (the Christ Idea), and not the natural man, and the unfoldment of the Perfect Man will proceed in divine order."
 

This week we completed reviewing the second lesson in the 13-lesson series titled, "The Fourth Dimension and Its Uses by Man." This second lesson is titled, "How Man, by Super-Mind Thinking, Can Control and Use the Luminiferous Ether of Space." From this lesson, we learned "the thought of man is the directive power not only of his mind, but of all the universe all about him.  … we are the avenues through which this essence [God] is made manifest." Through glimpses of the luminiferous ethers in our minds, we can express it in any function of the organism in strength. We then just started reviewing the third lesson, "The Finer Forces of Mind and Body Identified as the Garden of Eden: Elemental Substance and Life," delivered on Tuesday, October 4, 1932. Charles Fillmore shares, "In this course of lessons, we are seeking to explain man's fundamental spiritual being and his relation to the manifest world; especially that manifestation that takes place in his immediate neighborhood, which is his own mind and body." Further, Fillmore states that "the central idea for this lesson is 'Understanding-wisdom-discrimination-judgment.'"
 
 

Today we explore the 12th talk of a series of 12 given to Unity employees in the fall of 1924. This talk was delivered by Charles Fillmore on October 22, 1924, and is about Judgment, and more precisely, Justice and Judgment. In this talk, Fillmore emphasizes the importance of not judging by appearances. Fillmore states, "You are passing judgment on all things. You are judging other people, conditions, yourselves. When you awaken the Christ mind there is no longer any judgment, you will not condemn nor pass judgment on even yourselves."
 
In The Revealing Word, we explored the entry titled “Holy Spirit.”
 

This week we explored the seventh employee talk in a series of 12. (Lesson 6 is one of two missing talks.) Today’s talk delivered by Charles Fillmore on Wednesday, September 17, 1924, is titled “Praise and Prayer.” After an introductory piece on the Lord’s Prayer being a prayer of affirmations, Fillmore gets into the meat of the talk. The lesson is partially about how we get what we want. The most profound thing Fillmore says is, “How shall you get this larger consciousness you aspire to? By praising yourself. … Some persons think this would enlarge the ego. Well, it might if you praised the personality but if you praise yourself spiritual you enlarge your [awareness] of your spiritual Self and the little ego of personality grows less and less, disappears entirely, and you find yourself one with the universal Spirit.”
 
This week we also explored the terms “healing and will power” to “hearing” in The Revealing Word.
 
 

This week we explored the third employee talk in a series of 12 of which we have 10. Today’s talk, delivered by Charles Fillmore on Wednesday, August 27, 1924, is titled, “Man.” This talk shares about Spiritual Man, or the I Am. Fillmore makes some great points in this talk. In it he once again emphasizes his view of the material world and God: “God did not plan this material world. Man plans the material world. God plans the man.” It is important to emphasize this man is not the body or personality. “Christ is the man, the image and likeness of the infinite mind which over shines every one of us.” Finally, he once again makes the point that we use the Divine and infers the Divine does not use us when he states, “… and then if you can conceive that all that Mind is right at hand for your use, all ideas in the Divine Mind can be grasped and used by you.”

This week we also explored the terms “Grace” through “Gravitation” in The Revealing Word.

This week we look at a talk given to employees by Charles Fillmore on Wednesday, August 12, 1924. As near as we can determine, this is the first of a 12-week series. We have found the first five. This talk focuses on the inner world of our own consciousness. Fillmore says something very profound: “So, I say, we really are seeking to conquer the world and that world is a world made up of our own consciousness. We are told that we do not know anything outside of our consciousness, and we never shall know anything outside of our own consciousness.”

In The Revealing Word, we managed to just begin the entry “God, will of.”
 

This week’s Charles Fillmore talk was a Wednesday lesson probably delivered to employees on October 29, 1924. It carried the handwritten title of “Love.” Fillmore begins by saying, “Our lesson this morning is the realization of the harmonizing, vitalizing power in man. That power is called love.” Fillmore shares, “the spirit of love draws to me that which belongs to me. The greatest of all the faculties of the mind is love, that is, the most powerful.” You will find that I tweak and somewhat disagree with some of what Charles Fillmore shares.

In The Revealing Word, we explored from “God, responsibility to” to “God said.”
 

This week’s talk by Charles Fillmore was given on August 9, 1931, and is entitled “The Unfolding of the Higher Self.” It is based on the conversion of Saul on the way to Damascus. Fillmore states, “We look upon this experience of Paul’s as a step in man’s [humankind’s] evolution. The development in man [humankind] of that higher principle which is latent in every man and woman. … Jesus was an example of the practical unfoldment of a universal principle … Every one of us has this God Principle.” Finally, Charles Fillmore shares, “Jesus Christ is the great Head, showing us the way to the unfoldment of this spiritual principle.”
 
In The Revealing Word we reviewed from “God, centered in” to and including “God-man.”
 

This week’s broadcast focused on a talk given by Charles Fillmore on Sunday, July 11, 1937. The title is “Helps Toward Freedom.” This talk expresses common themes: “the inner logic of this reveals that Real ‘Me’ of every one of us is a spark of divinity, … life is what you make, … the divine law through which we are released form our attachments to the material side of life.” Its focus is upon Moses representing the law that provides freedom from the darkenss, the Egypt, the sense consciousness in humankind. Fillmore shares that we all begin our work in personal consciousness, which is the ego or personality. Ultimately, we must all be “obedient” to Divine Mind.

This week we explored “God as Spirit” in The Revealing Word.
 

This week we explore a talk probably given to employees on November 11, 1924. In this talk, Charles Fillmore explored the Silence as “the very foundation of the spiritual quality that we all are seeking.” Clearly, Fillmore’s definition of the Silence included some present time awareness, whereas today, I like to separate present time spiritual awareness from the actual Silence. Fillmore also shared, “There is a great substantial, eternal life right here present, open to every one of us and the object of our existence is to make contact with that life.” Fillmore touches briefly on communion as well.

During the final segment, we explored from “God as lawgiver” and “God as principle." Once again the challenge of anthropomorphic language shows up in these definitions.





 

This week we explore a Wednesday evening talk given by Charles Fillmore on August 13, 1924. Its handwritten title is “Conquer.” In the words of Charles Fillmore, this talk focuses on, “So, I say we really are all seeking to conquer the world and that world is a world made up of our own consciousness.” It is a talk that focuses on the Power of Power/Dominion. Fillmore states, “We should have dominion over our own thoughts, over impulses, the activities of mind, soul body.” Fillmore shares how to change the world by changing our minds because “your world is what you make.”

In The Revealing Word, we continued with the fourth paragraph of the entry on “God.” In these two short paragraphs, the emphasis seems to shift back and forth between an external God and an internal Divinity. We conclude with “God as health.”
 

This week’s lesson is entitled “Christmas," and was given by Charles Fillmore on December 19, 1923. Fillmore reflects on his view of how Christmas came about, connecting it to the various celebrations of what he called "barbarians." In the talk he shares about what the angels said: “Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, goodwill to men.” Fillmore takes a literal view and I give it a metaphysical twist. Toward the end, Fillmore explains what holy communion is, defining the bread as Substance and the wine as Life.

In The Revealing Word, we simply explore the term “evil.” This rich explanation of evil pulls in some of Charles Fillmore’s basic underlying beliefs. Most importantly, Fillmore states, “He [man = men and women] can do away with evil by learning rightly to use the one Power. If there were a power of evil, it could not be changed.”